[8]. Now night descending. Dunciad, I. 89, 90.
[8]. Throw him on the steep. Ode to Fear.
[‘ridgy steep
Of some loose hanging rock to sleep.’]
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. King Lear, I. 4. [‘More hideous, when thou show’st thee in a child.’]
Both at the first and now. Hamlet, III. 2.
[9]. Doctor Chalmers’s Discoveries. Thomas Chalmers, D.D. (1780–1847), who sought in his A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, viewed in connection with Modern Astronomy (1817), to reconcile science with current conceptions of Christianity. See The Spirit of the Age, vol. III. p. 228 and note.
[10]. Bandit fierce. Comus, l. 426.
Our fell of hair. Macbeth, V. 5.
Macbeth ... for the sake of the music. Probably Purcell’s. It was written for D’Avenant’s version and produced in 1672 (Genest). Cf. The Round Table, vol. I. p. 138 and note.